Dukan Diet side effects
Dukan Diet Side Effects
What is the Dukan diet?
Since the recent media furore over the Dukan Diet, many dieters have been left wondering whether the diet is actually healthy and worth trying. To answer this we need to look at what the Dukan diet is, and how it works.
The Dukan Diet is first and foremost a protein rich diet which eliminates carbs and fats in order to put the body in to a state of Ketosis. This idea is hardly new and most people will immediately recogonise this as a variation on the once famous Atkins Diet plan.
Ketosis is where the body is forced to use its own fat reserves to provide energy, as the body’s preferred source of energy (carbohydrates) is restricted. However, the Dukan Diet goes one step further and not only limits all carbs (both good and bad) but also limits certain dairy products and healthy fats.
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Is the Dukan diet safe?
First off, this is quite a hard diet to follow as the range of foods you can eat consist of protein such as chicken, fish, lean turkey, and lean beef. Although this phase only lasts a short time, you will need to always choose one day per week where you will only eat these foods, breakfast till supper. For those of you who enjoy cereal, fruit, or bread this can be very difficult to follow.
Secondly, putting your body in a state of ketosis is both unnatural and potentially harmful.
Side effects of ketosis include a distinct lack of energy, diarrhea, headaches, dizziness and even blood vessel damage. Dieters following low carb diets also complain of feeling cranky, deprived and sluggish.
The energy produced from your fat cells are often not enough to get you through the day, hence why your body favours carbohydrates for energy.
Dukan Diet Conclusion
The Dukan diet is no different in approach than the many other low carb diets already in circulation, they all promote ketosis and all can give some pretty dire side effects.
The lack of essential vitamins and minerals which quickly occurs through the restriction of certain food groups (such as vegetables), is also questionable, and can cause brittle nails, hair loss, and bad skin. Not really the look most of us want to achieve!
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So what really works?
Keep a food diary and record the amount of calories you consume each day. Gradually limit your daily calorie intake until you begin to lose weight. This does not mean banning certain food groups; however do watch the amount of saturated fat you consume.
If you normally find it hard to limit high-carb foods such as pizza, pasta, chips and rice from your diet you might benefit from using a natural carb-blocker such as Meratol.
Meratol is a 4-in-1 diet supplement which works to block up to 82% of carbohydrates and nearly a quarter of fat in the foods we consume. It also works to gently raise the metabolism helping to burn as many calories in a day as a 25 minute jog.
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